Usually means: Urban core and surrounding communities.
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  1. metropolitan-area: Wordnik
  2. metropolitan area: Wiktionary
  3. Metropolitan Area (France), Metropolitan Area (Italy), Metropolitan Area, Metropolitan area: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metropolitan area: Energy Dictionary
  2. metropolitan area: Legal dictionary
  3. metropolitan area: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (metropolitan area)

noun:  An area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.

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